'No Tears for [Allen Salkin]'

AUTHOR: Nick Denton, founder of Gawker Media, proud progenitor of snarky, irresistible blogs on gossip, Hollywood, technology, etc.RECORD BROKEN: Shortest screed in Atlantic Wire historyNUMBER OF CHARACTERS: Fewer than 140 WHICH COMES TO...: 26 wordsVENOM CONTAINED THEREIN: PotentMOTIVATION OF TWEET: Revenge for NYT article predicting Gawker's demiseSECRET MOTIVATION OF TWEET: Bruiting that his Web site has grown fourfold since January 2008LOWEST BLOW: Celebrating the firing of someone in the midst of a recession, in a field with scarce opportunitiesNUMBER OF RE-TWEETS: 14WHAT HE SAID: "Since Allen
Salkin wrote Gawker's obit in Jan 2008, site's audience has grown
fourfold. And he just lost his job at NYT. No tears for him."